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Friday, May 17, 2013

Society

A society grows great when old men plant trees 
whose shade they know they shall never sit it.
~ Greek Proverb
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The other day I was waiting with Cameron and Jenny for a Downton Abbey lecture to start.  Jenny said to Cameron, "Did you ever go to school when this was a thing?" and showed him a black and white picture of a young woman.  Cameron laughed.

I said, "I think that's me in the picture."

It was a photo of a woman looking through a card catalog drawer.

And I thought, "Wow.  She really hasn't ever used a card catalog."  And then I thought, "Wow.  I hope she was talking about card catalogs and not libraries."

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